EU INFORMATION CENTERS TO BE FOUNDED IN ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
June 16, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The first sitting of the working
group on elaboration of information strategy on European integration
in Armenia took place on June 15. Representatives of interested
departments included in the group discussed working issues connected
with strategy elaboration.
Artur Baghdasarian, the Secretary of the National Security Council,
Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on Coordination of
Armenia’s Cooperation with European structures, presiding at the
sitting proposed submitting strategy’s general provisions for
discussion in a three-month term, discussing them with interested
structures and submitting the revised document for endorsement in
2010. Strategy’s endorsement will be followed by opening of European
Union information centers in Yerevan and in the regions.
According to the report of the National Security Council Staff Press
Service, experts from the European Union involved in the working group
expressed readiness to support strategy elaboration and creation of
EU information centers. They said that the information centers will
be of much importance in Armenia-European Union relations.